As kids, Shaun and Daz are inseparable, skipping school, racing bikes, knocking about downby the lake with Katy, Shauns first love. Full of life, Shaun runs up against an educationsystem that cannot contain him. He is squeezed and eventually spat out, taking Daz downwith him as he self&#8208;destructs.

Twenty years later, Daz is in a wheelchair and has eight weeks to live. Shaun is left to reflecton one gilded summer of love, sex and loyalty that marked the end of his innocence. Hismemories lead him to track down Katy, in a bid for personal redemption. This is a story ofbright lives unfulfilled, of hopes that are snuffed out and then, finally, rekindled.